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Aihmalotoi tou misous (1972)
Egregiously bad
Inconceivably and mindnumbingly stupid, featuring perhaps the most pompous dialogues that King Pompous (Nikos Foskolos) has ever written.
It would be just a bad movie with a preposterous plot (a former Nazi who decided to deal arms to third nations so as to take revenge on the Allied nations(what?!)) and cringetastic scenes (the drunken sailors, the kid with the assault rifle, the flamethrower flashbacks etc), worth perhaps of a 2 or 3 out of 10.
However, his revolting and deceitful claims on various issues (that, for example, Nazi Germany was treated unjustifiably hard by the Allies and therefore had some justification in retaliating, or that white mercenaries and not the native black population were the perpetrators of the violent crimes against the white population of Congo in the 1970s) infuriated me to an unprecedented degree and I can't justify any other rating than one star.
Aldevaran (1975)
Utter drivel
At this point in time, the Greek cinema that had flourished for two decades and produced enjoyable, well-written comedies and a couple of adequate dramas, was dead and ready to be buried in the ground. In its place emerged a new school of thought and cinema, in which self-important talentless hacks aped foreign directors and classic movies and created some of the worst cinematic abominations the post ww2 Europe has seen.
Enigmatic characters who wandered around, recited platitudes and inanities, engaged in antisocial or autistic behavior and...that's it. That was the whole premise and this movie is no different: a man walks, utters banalities, sings nonsensical songs, wanders around, walks some more. There is also a girl and a singer and an absolutely atrocious narrator, who describes thoughts and happenings naively and in a laughably bad voice. Lethargy, slowness and inaction disguised as profundity and depth.
It's even worse than "so bad it's good", it exceeds such levels of terribleness.
The Way Way Back (2013)
Like a bad remake of Adventureland
From the laughably cliche troubled family to the water park plot, which is a shameless ripoff of Adventureland (2009), there is not a single original idea or scene in this movie. I don't get its appeal at all. And it's not like Jim Rash has a formidable screenwriting talent whose brilliance we failed to grasp here - if anything he has proven resoundingly that he can't write or direct at all.